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whole cloth
noun
Definition of WHOLE CLOTH
: pure fabrication —usually used in the phrase out of whole cloth <the theory was created out of whole cloth>
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First Known Use of WHOLE CLOTH
1840
Rhymes with WHOLE CLOTH
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